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The new Horizon Europe project MELANGE will transform colouration practices in the European interior textile industry by moving colour design from the end to the beginning of the manufacturing process.
Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture returns to Dutch Design Week with ‘art-ai-fact’, an exhibition featuring multiple AI-inspired designs.
The Inclusive Play project designs an accessible playground that is suitable also for children with disabilities. The project strives for a holistic experience of education, play and belonging.
In the pilot, companies will have the opportunity to explore and test new ways to address the challenges of transformation in collaboration with Aalto University.
Nikula is being honored as an open-minded trailblazer who is taking landscape architecture into areas where the field is still limited but the need is great.
Camilla Naukkarinen, who graduated from Aalto University, has won the Young Designer of the Year 2026 competition. The winning entry consisted of hand-woven flowers made from hair fibers and metal wire.
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Aalto University’s blog series Creativity Unfolded focuses on insights linked to creativity in a multitude of ways. Topics include design, technology, media, architecture, film, games, art theory and...
Professor of Practice in Strategic and Industrial Design says that the world’s most pressing issues, like climate change, won’t be addressed by tinkering at the edges of today’s solutions but rather require a more fundamental redesign.
Professor of Landscape Architecture is tackling the issues of climate change mitigation and urban carbon sinks.
‘I claim’ series presents our researchers and the results of their work. Henrika Ylirisku researches the premises of environmental art education.
Lohmann’s magnificent seaweed pavilion won the sustainable design category for Dezeen Awards 2020.
Architect Karin Krokfors says buildings should be designed to be adaptable over time. And that history holds plenty of examples for us to study.
Fighting toxic masculinity with a podcast and the help of Visual Communication Design.
Aalto Design Cases is a platform for activity-based creativity and practice-based research in the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Aalto University promotes visibility and impact of art and creativity both in society and at our own campus. Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art.
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